JJMatley

A simple fix for me!

Had the same problem after updating WordPress to 3.9.1, WP eCommerce to 3.8.14.1 and Gold Cart to 2.9.7.8. Not sure if it was involved in the problem, but I also installed the Fixed Rate Shipping plugin (which should just be included automatically to accommodate store pick up option). I was getting the “Enter A Valid State” message for the Billing State when attempting to checkout.

Oddly, if I checked “Shipping Same as Billing” there was no error on the Billing State. But if I did not check “Shipping Same as Billing” the error message would appear.

Someone recommended to go to Settings>Store>Checkout and in the Shipping form fields drag Country above State. That didn’t quite do it. In the Billing form fields I also drug Country above State and then was fixed. Question is, did they both have to be like that, or just billing. I went to the Shipping form fields again and put country BACK below state. Checking out continued to work.

So for me, dragging Country above State in the Billing form fields did the trick!

And I hope some of this helps developers correct the issue.

I’m experiencing the same problem. From what I learned searching for solutions to this problem, it appears this error message is in the WP e-Commerce ajax.php file. Does that help anyone sort the problem out?

Potential temporary fix:

I pulled up the groups.php, made a backup, then deleted everything. Now guests can submit events. I’m not using groups, I think, so all is well for the time being. I received an email for a pending approval and everything with no trouble.

This may help you out until the EventsManager provides a more appropriate solution than simply blowing that code away.

Well, forget that. Their site says to do it here for the free version.

I have the same issue! I think I’ll post this on the developer forum. If I get a response I’ll post it here.

shellbodnax, I found and posted a fix.

Read this other topic:
onth Dropdown fix

Got it! First try, easy.

The file to edit:
WP install folder> wp-content > plugins > the-events-calendar > views > datepicker.php

Open with web editing software and change line 8 from:
$link .= ‘&eventDisplay=month&eventDate=’;
to
$link .= ‘?eventDisplay=month&eventDate=’;

Notice the & in front of eventDisplay. Change it to a ?.

Save the file and you’re good to go!

I had all these same problems, the month dropdown, the List and Calendar link, the 404 error.

I do use a custom permalink structure.
When I switched back to the default WP permalinks, things improved.
But, I want the custom permalinks, so I turned it back on and did codebloo’s suggestion.

In The Event Calendar’s settings, turning Use Pretty URLs off helped.

All links work accept for the month dropdown.

Looking at the URL produced in the address bar after clicking on a dropdown month, and comparing it to the URL for that same month when you click on a next/previous month link, they are different. I don’t think they should be different. I’m going to try editing that dropdown to match those URLs up. I’ll post results.

Guessing your problem is the same as mine.

I have my permalinks set to something like /%postname% (whatever). Point is, this calendar appears to not work with custom permalink structure. As soon as I set my wordpress permalink structure back to default, The Event Calendar started working perfectly, to include the month dropdown, Event List and Calendar links.

I’m hoping there is a work around or some other setting or php that can be altered to compensate. I’d like to keep the custom SEO friendly permalink structure.

If someone knows what to do, please inform others!